Egypt
Zahi Hawass on Paris Exhibition
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/736/he2.htm
Hawass's occasional column in Al Ahram Weekly is focused in this issue on the Paris exhibition "The Glory of the Pharaohs" which focuses mainly on the work of two important early French Egyptologists. He describes taking the heads of state of Egypt and France (President Hosni Mubarak, Mrs Mubarak, President Jacques Chirac and Mrs Chirac) around the exhibition and recounts what he showed them and some of the comments made.
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Repatriation: Tetiky Paintings Return To Egypt Fro Louvre In France
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photo. For anyone who missed the story there's a good summary on Al Ahram Weekly by Nevine El-Aref explaining the background to the return of the paintings to Egypt (also with photo). I am pleased that the five paintings...
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More On Farouk Hosni Resignation
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/760/fr4.htm"Hosni said the growing calls for his resignation had catalysed his decision to resign. 'I was facing personal accusations even before the investigations were over,' he told the Weekly. 'I submitted...
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Alexandria Mosaics Restored
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/738/he2.htm Hawass's occasional piece in Al Ahram Weekly focuses this week on three mosiacs from Alexandria which have recently bee restored.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
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Tête-à-tête With The French Explorers
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/735/eg9.htm "Today at sunset Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Secretary-General Zahi Hawass, French Cultural Attaché Denis Louche and senior French and Egyptian officials and archaeologists...
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Hawass On Champollion And Relations With The French
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/719/he2.htm
Zahi Hawass uses his occasional column in Al Ahram to talk about visiting the house of Champollion in Grenoble, the value of his translation of the Rosetta Stone, and the good relationship between Egypt and...
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